Text printed on verso of card is titled: History of Princess Angeline Seattle (Related by Chief Seattle's grandson Moses.") It tells the story of how Angeline warned the white settlers during the Treaty War of 1856 that "bad Indians" were coming to kill the whites. The story mentions the U.S. gunboat Decatur which played a decisive role in the so-called "Battle of Seattle" during the Treaty War. It also notes that Angeline was 85 years old when she died in 1896. The text ends with "compliments of J.E. Standley, Prop. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Colman Dock, Seattle."